Do actors get frustrated with their characters' bad choices?

Do TV drama actors judge their characters?

Jon Hamm of "Mad Men," Norman Reedus of "The Walking Dead," Lizzy Caplan of "Masters of Sex," Vera Farmiga of "Bates Motel," Liev Schreiber of "Ray Donovan" discuss how they relate to their characters with Times staff writer Yvonne Villarreal.

Jon Hamm of "Mad Men," Norman Reedus of "The Walking Dead," Lizzy Caplan of "Masters of Sex," Vera Farmiga of "Bates Motel," Liev Schreiber of "Ray Donovan" discuss how they relate to their characters with Times staff writer Yvonne Villarreal.

For Caplan and some of the others, it's not an actor's job to judge his or her character but rather to play the tole believably. For Reedus, when he was uncomfortable with his character's life views early on, he asked the show runner to change it — and it worked, giving viewers the Daryl Dixon we all know and love today.

See what Hamm, Farmiga and Schreiber think about their characters as well in the video above.